Lumber-wagon



(No Model.)

J. G. SEIFER & J. MASUHEK. Lumber Wagon. No. 243,633. Patented June 28,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. SEIFER AND JOHN MASCHEK, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

LUMBER-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,633, dated June28, 1881.

Application filed April 18, 1881. (No model.)

1' 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JOHN G. SEIFER and JOHN MASCHEK, of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lumher-WVagons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates more particularly to a wagon for hauling lumber.

The invention consists, essentially, in a novel construction and arrangement of the reach and connections, whereby provision is made for extending and contracting the length of the wagon to accommodate it to long or short lumber, and in certain details hereinafter more particularly described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a top view of a wagon embodying our improvements. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a detail view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The general construction of the running gear may be of any suitable description.

The front axle-tree is provided with two pairs of braces connecting it with the hounds.

The braces B exten'd from the front ends of the hounds D down under the axle-tree A,and then up againto the hounds behind the axletree.- The braces are connected to the hounds by bolts and to the axle-tree by screws and nuts. The braces B have each one end attached to the axle-tree near its end by means of the clip 0, which secures the iron portion of the axle-tree to the wooden portion, from which point it extends diagonally and slightly upward to the side of the hound, to which it is secured-by bolts.

On the top of the hounds rests a fifth-wheel, E, of any suitable description.

To the top of the upper half of the fifth- L, which are preferably formed by a wooden filling, with the top and bottom faced and secured by flat bar-iron bolted to the wood and to the bars K. In the bars L are slots, through which the double reach or bars J J pass, and in which theyare free to slide when extending or contracting the length of the wagon. Said double reach is held in position at different adjustments in a similar manner to a double reach by bolts passed through the bars L and through holes in the reach.

The wagon is provided with a Windlass, M, and chain, m, for binding the load, and also with a roller, P, and lever, p, for dumping the load in the usual manner.

Having thus described our invention, we

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combinatiom'with the axle-treeAand hounds D, of the braces B B arranged as herein shown and described.

2. The double reach consisting of the bars J J, in combination with the frame composed of the longitudinal bars K and slotted transverse bars L, as herein shown and described.

JOHN GOTTLIEB SEIFER. JOHN MASOHEK.

Witnesses GEORGE GRUEBEL, BUXTON PRESTON. 

